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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1919
Page
4
Pendleton market reports show producer prices for poultry eggs bacon butter and produce with Milton cantaloupes retailing two for 25 cents and watermelons at 4 1 2 cents per pound. Grain and seed topics include extended trade agreement deadlines certified potato seed and high wheat yields in Whitman and Walla Walla counties. Mill feed remains scarce with hay steady around 30 dollars per ton.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best tonic for gradual loss of appetite. The copy claims the body is running down and promotes the product as a cure without offering additional medical detail. It reflects period health rhetoric.
Unclear notice describes tea cream packed in cardboard cartons intended to stay fresh for a short period. No concrete names or locations identifiable in readable text.
Market report from North Portland notes no bogs or cattle arrivals. hogs steady to firm with limited trading. Total arrivals small. prices show slight strength but overall market fails to rise above general level. Prime mixed hogs quoted around 20.50 to 20.75 per hundredweight with other grades near 19.50 to 20.00.
The cattle market shows little change with mixed quotes for steers cows and heifers. Prime lambs and feeders hold at higher levels as receipts are fair. coarse grains edge up with barley and oats quoted higher by the Umatilla Milling Co.
BAN FRANCISCO Aug 12 Ex ping death on the battlefields of France in many engagements. John W. Baker 24 years off a discharged Marine employed at the Enion Iron World was badly beaten, choked, robbed and rendered unconscious by three unidentified men in his room at 636 Montgomery street early today.
Eugene Oregon wearily weighs a municipal telephone system amid rising Pacific Telephone rates. Mayor C O Peterson says Salem and Albany are also studying the idea. No action expected until after the public services commission meets on August 17 to decide rate fate. If allowed, plan may go to voters. council to discuss Monday.
Sohyl Kumace the Japanese champion in the Invitation tournament on the Cassing courts loses to William Ohosten of California in straight sets 6 1 6 1 4 5. John Eaten meets William T. Tiden I of Philadelphia who defeated Howard Vessell in today’s action, with the final round set for tomorrow.
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